{"id":10418,"date":"2024-05-23T13:49:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=10418"},"modified":"2024-05-31T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T16:27:01","slug":"alabama-to-execute-double-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=10418","title":{"rendered":"Alabama to Execute Double Murderer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Alabama criminal convicted of the brutal 2004 murder and robbery of an elderly couple is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on May 30.\u00a0 Ivana Hrynkiw of Huntsville Real-Time News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/huntsville\/2024\/05\/timing-of-alabama-inmate-jamie-mills-lethal-injection-lawsuit-inexplicable-and-inexcusable-judge.html\">reports<\/a> that last week Chief U.S. District Judge Emily Marks rejected Jamie Ray Mills&#8217; petition for a stay of execution noting that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe practice of filing lawsuits and requests for stay of execution at the last minute where the facts were known well in advance is ineffective, unworkable, and must stop.\u00a0 The Court acknowledges that lawyers representing death row inmates set to be executed unquestionably owe a duty to their clients. However, these lawyers are also officers of the court. The act of filing a civil action and then a request for injunctive relief after unjustified delay often appears to be legal manipulation rather than genuine legal advocacy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>:\u00a0 Mills was executed without incident at 6:26 PM on May 30.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lawyers seeking to delay Mills&#8217; execution are employed by the Equal Justice Initiative, a George Soros-funded group that seeks to overturn the death sentences of murderers. They have filed a last minute claim that challenges the state&#8217;s lethal injection process even though Mills chose that execution method over nitrogen gas, a painless alternative chosen by several other condemned Alabama murderers.\u00a0 They also claim that the entire conviction was based on the testimony of Mills&#8217; former common-law wife, who admitted that she accompanied him on the day he killed Vera and Floyd Hill.\u00a0 The facts described in a 2008 Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/alabama\/court-of-appeals-criminal\/2008\/cr062246.html\">decision<\/a> upholding Mills&#8217; conviction and sentence thoroughly disprove that claim.<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of June 24, 2004, the granddaughter of the Hills, drove to their home after trying to reach them several times by telephone.\u00a0 When she arrived and found the house locked and nobody responding she called the police.\u00a0 Officers found the bodies of both victims in a storage shed in their yard. Floyd Hill, 87, was dead. Vera Hill, 72, although suffering multiple head wounds, was alive. She died three months later from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>At trial a neighbor testified to seeing Mills&#8217; car in the Hills&#8217; driveway at the time of the murder.\u00a0 When police interviewed Mills, he denied knowing the victims and claimed he was out of town on the day of the murders. In a separate interview Mills&#8217; wife admitted being with him and witnessing the murders. A search of Mills&#8217; car uncovered a bloody machete, a tire iron, hammer and blood stained men&#8217;s clothing.\u00a0 They also found the tackle box that Mr. Hill used to store his diabetic wife&#8217;s medications, his wallet and her purse. The coroner testified that Vera died of blunt force trauma, which Floyd also suffered along with slashing injuries. A forensic scientist testified that DNA testing of the blood on Mills&#8217; clothes and on the three weapons found in his car indicated that it belonged to the victims. The amount of money Mills stole from the Hills was approximately $140. Police confirmed that after the murders, Mills sold some of Vera Hill&#8217;s medications to a local drug addict.<\/p>\n<p>Barring a last minute-stay of execution, Jamie Ray Mills will die a far more peaceful death that he inflicted on Floyd and Vera Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alabama criminal convicted of the brutal 2004 murder and robbery of an elderly couple is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on May 30.\u00a0 Ivana Hrynkiw of Huntsville Real-Time News reports that last week Chief U.S. District Judge Emily Marks rejected Jamie Ray Mills&#8217; petition for a stay of execution noting that: \u201cThe practice of filing lawsuits and requests for stay of execution at the last minute where the facts were known well in advance is ineffective, unworkable, and must stop.\u00a0 The Court acknowledges that lawyers representing death row inmates set to be executed unquestionably owe a duty to their clients. However, these lawyers are also officers of the court. The act of filing a civil action and then a request for injunctive relief after unjustified delay often appears to be legal manipulation rather than genuine legal advocacy.\u201d UPDATE:\u00a0 Mills was executed without incident at 6:26 PM on May 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alabama to Execute Double Murderer - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=10418\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alabama to Execute Double Murderer - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An Alabama criminal convicted of the brutal 2004 murder and robbery of an elderly couple is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on May 30.\u00a0 Ivana Hrynkiw of Huntsville Real-Time News reports that last week Chief U.S. District Judge Emily Marks rejected Jamie Ray Mills&#8217; petition for a stay of execution noting that: \u201cThe practice of filing lawsuits and requests for stay of execution at the last minute where the facts were known well in advance is ineffective, unworkable, and must stop.\u00a0 The Court acknowledges that lawyers representing death row inmates set to be executed unquestionably owe a duty to their clients. 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